W. Nicholson Price II

W. Nicholson Price II
University of Michigan School of Law

University of Michigan School of Law

Nicholson Price is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, where he researches and teaches intellectual property, innovation policy, health law, and the life sciences. He previously was an assistant professor of law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. In his time as an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center, Nicholson studied innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, personalized medicine, and the issues surrounding secondary findings in genomic research. His work has been published in Science, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Nature Biotechnology, the Boston College Law Review, and the Hastings Center Report, among others.

Nicholson received his JD from Columbia Law School in 2011, where he was a James Kent Scholar, was Submissions Editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and twice received the Julius Silver Note Prize. He received his PhD in Biological Sciences, also from Columbia University, in 2010. He holds an AB in Biological Sciences from Harvard College. After law school, he clerked for Judge Carlos T. Bea of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was a Visiting Consortium Scholar at the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.